Demonstrating his macho
qualities for reporters (at least, after the fashion of lawyer-politicians in
business suits) California Attorney General Bill Lockyer bragged not long ago
that he would like to “personally escort” Enron CEO Kenneth Lay

So long as their jobs are funded out of tax moneys, most would agree that
a firefighter injured while rescuing residents from a burning building, or a cop
or probation officer who blows out a knee while chasing a dangerous suspect,
should have

It would be a bad thing if talented
individuals were blocked from their careers of choice because of sex or race.
But while some subtler prejudice doubtless remains, the days when applicants to
American colleges or medical schools were told “Yo

Out of Green Bay, Wisc., The
Associated Press reported Tuesday “A woman who was upset over being searched
bodily at an airport was convicted Tuesday of assaulting a security screener by
grabbing the federal officer’s breasts.”

Colorado led the way, a decade ago.
History had shown that “voluntary spending limits” adopted by legislative bodies
are easily (and inevitably) sidestepped, violated and/or ignored by the very
same legislators who enact them.

“The federal government’s campaign
against income tax protesters suffered a major setback yesterday when a federal
jury in Sacramento acquitted a former Internal Revenue Service investigator on
charges of helping to prepare false tax returns,”

There’s a lot of face-saving
going on as the nonprofit Las Vegas Monorail Co. dismisses its current
management company, Transit Systems Management LLC, and moves in to take control
of the troubled East-of-the-Strip Las Vegas tourist train, itse

This weekend we celebrate that
stirring day in history, July 4, 1812, when the first president of the United
States, Benjamin Franklin, emerged from the old State House in Boston, held up
the new Constitution freshly penned by Thomas Jefferson

I first heard a version of the idea
proposed by New Hampshire state Libertarian Party Chairman John Babiarz at a
June 25 luncheon at J.W. Hill's pub, across Elm Street from last weekend's
Freedom Forum in downtown Manchester, where Marc Victor

Back in 2001, a dangerous loony -- am I
now required to call him a “former dangerous loony”? -- named Michael Kane was
playing a violent video game with some friends at a house near Flamingo Road and
Boulder Highway, in Las Vegas.

Meeting in London June 11,
government functionaries of the “Group of Eight” industrialized nations agreed
on an historic deal which will see the taxpayers of Germany, Great Britain and
the United States (primarily) pay off more than $40 billion

During last year’s presidential
campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate generally portrayed by the urban,
left-leaning media as sophisticated, intellectual, nuanced, and complex, while
George W. Bush was dismissed as a barely literate simperi

When we hear of various American
freedoms being protected “by the Constitution,” we tend to assume the speaker
refers to the first eight amendments to that document -- the main body of the
Bill of Rights.

On May 24 in San Francisco, more
than 150 parents of autistic children launched a new nonprofit outfit,
Generation Rescue, coordinating their announcement with a full-page ad in that
day’s USA Today, offering the eye-catching message (twice) th

Defense attorney Andrew Leavitt and
Clark County Public Defender Phil Kohn contend an unmistakable pattern has
developed in Southern Nevada courtrooms -- illegal aliens who are convicted of
crimes that would likely draw probation for U.S. citiz

Memorial Day. This first weekend of summer has long been a time of
picnics and barbecues and trips to the beach. To their credit, Americans never
actually forgot the sacrifices of those who gave the final measure to protect
the freedoms we now

When was it (and what was it that
kept us too distracted to notice) -- when ours became something other than a
government staffed by common citizens taking time off to pitch in and do the
public’s business, oiling the roads and cleaning the dea